willing to contribute - so laptops suspend better - but how?

[Jarod Wilson]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 05/24/2007 02:51 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> > On 5/24/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On 5/24/07, John bowden <j-alan at btconnect.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Thursday 24 May 2007 13:08:32 Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> >> > > On 5/24/07, Gianluca Sforna <giallu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > > > On 5/24/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > > > > I would like to help troubleshoot my laptop and then other 10
>> >> I have
>> >> > > > > access to but I can't find how to do that.
>> >> > > > >
>> >> > > > > Is there any wiki page or some other resource that I can use?
>> >> Or can
>> >> > > > > you look at this one and give me some specific pointers?
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Try here:
>> >> > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Been there, done that - no honey :)
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Does fedora community have some more resourceful page regarding
>> >> > > suspend/resume on laptops?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > When I had the same issue with the same laptop I was blown away 
>> with
>> >> > > OpenSuse page - http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram - they hit nail on 
>> the
>> >> > > head with their wiki page IMHO.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Fedora needs more online resources - quirks page is not 
>> sufficient.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Valent from Croatia.
>> >> >
>> >> > Don't know if this is of any help as I'm trying to get my touch pad
>> >> working my
>> >> > note book is a similar model.
>> >> > http://www.red-web.ro/ics/f7-on-HP500.html
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I must say Fedora 7 test 4 works just great in other respects on my
>> >> laptop - seams you have much more problems. Ok, my wireless iwl3945
>> >> doesn't work (I filed a bug also for that) but I can make it work with
>> >> few commands... but suspend/resume I can't make to work no matter what
>> >> I try.
>> >>
>> >> Valent.
>> >>
>> > Ok, it seams I have some bios problem issues!
>> >
>> > I wen't back to OpenSuse 10.2 in which I claimed suspend works - and
>> > it did work before - now it doesn't work anymore!
>> >
>> > I had to upgrade my bios in order to get Intel VT option in bios - and
>> > that FINALLY enabled me to run Xen virtualisation! But it seams that
>> > this new bios now has some other issues so not even OpenSuse which
>> > worked doesn't now :(
>> >
>> > First time I tried to suspend under OpenSuse 10.2 it freezed, and
>> > second time it started to wakeup but some really strange noises came
>> > from the HDD that FREAKED me out! I powered it off as soon as possible
>> > - and everything worked fine on power up!
>> >
>> > Do you have any information, does Intel virtualisation have any thing
>> > to do with suspend/resume? Does it need to be disabled in order for
>> > suspend/resume to work?
>>
>> Try unloading the kvm and kvm-intel modules before suspending.
>>
> 
> They aren't loaded
> 
> [root at fedora74 ~]# lsmod|grep kvm
> [root at fedora74 ~]#

Are you running a Xen kernel? And if so, does suspend work with a 
non-Xen kernel?

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com